THE BIG PICTURE by Mary Andrews

Hi. My name is Mary Andrews.
http://www.firebornchronicles.com/


I recently submitted book III of The Fireborn Chronicles series to MuseItUp Press and I’m working on Book IV. The series deals with the inevitable fusion of Man, Machine & the Paranormal—what I like to call Psionic Sci Fi.

The beauty of writing science fiction is that I can take any subject and any type of character, jumble up a mish-mash of environments in any time frame and lead a reader into the wonderful
world of ‘What If.’

For instance: sometimes, maybe always, life isn’t what we expect. It gets all jumbled up and things zig instead of zag. People don’t make sense. But what if there’s a reason for all this? What if everything serves a purpose too large for us to see?

In my first blog entry on my website, I wrote about a universal cause and affect epiphany I had while watching a Nova broadcast about The Big Bang. In it I wondered why artists have to be artists and why mathematicians, scientists, public servants, teachers, etc are compelled to follow their courses.

As I stepped back far enough and looked, there appeared a pattern and categories; artists dream...scientists create...laborers build...public servants guide.

And in an even more complex scale, every .failure and every success of every individual in every daily endeavor affects those who witness it. Like dominoes, or better still, like the Olympic torch, we each carry a spark and pass it until it come to fruition. The billions of us whose names will never be remembered spawn Einsteins, Hawkins, Gandhis....

Eventually I decided that perhaps in the big picture we, as a species, are instinctively driven to escape the bonds of this world before it meets its inevitable end. Granted, we’re talking a long range project here, but....

The ‘What Ifs’ can surely boggle the mind and the possibilities are limitless. So I really enjoy following the loopity-loops my characters concoct when a story gets going. (Yeah, I confess, after my characters solidify into their environments I'm little more than their transcriptionist.)


The Fireborn Chronicles (book I) follows the formation of an interstellar dark ops team of outcast psychics in a far distant future hundreds of years after Earth’s demise. While in pursuit of a psionic kidnapper they discover an unexpected future in the past and begin to wonder if anything is truly what it seems?






The underlying theme of The Fireborn Chronicles: Resonances (book II) involves a blend of destiny, free will and perspective while troubled characters, both gifted and cursed with rogue abilities careen down a path not of their choosing.

QUESTION: If destiny forces an individual into a role, is that a life of service or slavery?

Ride along as they find how slavery can be liberating, power can
enslave, and clairvoyance can bite you on the...hindmost parts.
—Joe W.Trent (author of The King of Silk)

So Readers, do you believe in predestination? Do you think that sometimes, maybe always, life isn’t what we expect for a reason? What’s your take on these things?

*NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org...cover art Resonances:Delilah Stephens...cover art The Fireborn Chronicles: Laura Diehl